[amsat-bb] Unattended FoxTelem Question

[Burns Fisher]

Answer from Chris:  It does automatically reload the keps every so often.
He did not remember at the time how often, but you should not need to stop
and start it for that reason.

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Burns Fisher <burns at fisher.cc> wrote:

> Good point, Roy.  I'm working on a similar thing with Chris (FoxTelem
> author), so I'll ask.  Not sure if he watches this BB.
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> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Roy Dean <royldean at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Does FoxTelem automatically check for new Keps periodically, or only upon
>> startup?   I have an unattended station running on a Raspberry Pi, and I'm
>> wondering if I shouldn't close and restart FoxTelem every couple of weeks
>> to refresh TLE's.    Scrolled through the command terminal and didn't see
>> any updates occuring, but you can see keps being updated upon startup.
>>
>> -Roy
>> K3RLD
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